supply-side

“Abundance” is the buzzword and book title for a technocratic theory of “supply-side liberalism” that seeks to clear away the red tape and interest-group NIMBYism standing in the way of government planners who want to expedite the delivery of public services — housing, high speed rail, etc.

Perhaps it was supply-side economics that did the trick.

In an analysis published in the Washington Post, Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody's Analytics, and Jim Parrott, a fellow at the Urban Institute, described the plan as “the most aggressive supply-side push since the national investment in housing that followed World War II.”

But this diagnosis of the child-care market as a simple supply-side problem conflicts with how child-care experts see it.

For Harris' plan to succeed, it will need to address these supply-side challenges while also addressing local zoning laws and regulations.